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Mask company makes custom coverings that look like your face:
With travel companies and countries around the world finally coming down on the side of mandatory facial coverings in public, many feel anxious that surgical masks eroding their individuality. Fortunately one artist turned-accidental-entrepreneur has come up with a solution to social hygiene that is as idiosyncratic as you are.
Unsurprisingly these custom 'Face ID Masks' began as a practical joke. With surgical masks printed to order from selfie photos, the company began taking orders on the website "Resting Risk Face.com" in June.
Using user submitted photos the company makes facial coverings that match your features and skin tone – with the pledge to make the wearer "more easily recognisable during viral pandemics."
The result is uncanny. Apparently the coverings are convincing enough to "unlock devices" using facial recognition.
For artist Danielle Baskin the project had started "just for fun".
(Score: 2) by pdfernhout on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:25PM
Choir scene from the movie (creepy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl14xh4GSrc [youtube.com]
(Not that I especially object to this idea for realistic masks especially for professionals interacting with the public... Earlier some medical staff did T-shirts with faces too..)
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.